Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.